OpenEuphoria

Re: Looking for Ideas for Tab Control

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Apr 17, 2006
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Antonio Alessi wrote:
> 
> Al Getz wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there Antonio,
> > 
> > 
> > Oh yes, i really like the idea of the context menu to 'jump' to a 
> > particular tab.  This is a great idea.
> > I also like the idea before too, with the arrow buttons on BOTH
> > sides of the tabs...although i've modified this now to:
> > Have up/down controls on both sides of the tabs, but just above
> > the tab rows.  In between the two controls have a "Title" similar
> > to a caption bar in a regular window, which allows the user to
> > 'name' their set of tabs (or keep it blank of course).
> > Adding to this your idea of the popup menu i think that should do
> > it.  The popup menu would do it by itself too i think.
> > 
> > This will appear in my new version of the LaunchPad in the near future.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks much, and take care,
> > Al
> > 
> 
> I'm happy you appreciate the idea; but don't undervalue that to be really
> efficient the popup menu must allow to filter somehow files or filetype 
> or other, since the number of loaded files can always exceed the available 
> display space, so that even a plain popup menu may become insufficient to 
> the scope: the user should not need to scroll it until possible.
> 
> BTW reading your answer another idea joined my thoughts: 
> could we think to a kind of TAB including other TABs? 
> e.g. create TABs able to group TABs, this would be functional! 
> I must think over that; let me know your opinion about too.
> 
> antonio

I see what you mean about the popup menu being not able to handle
as many 'tab names' as there could be for something, but i think
a tab control is really meant for a smaller number of items and
if there is going to be the possibility of a huge number of items
then a tree view is probably a better bet.

As far as a tab control that houses other tab controls, that in turn
house more sub tab controls, i dont see a problem with this really,
except again the navigation still wouldnt be that simple, and the
number of items per tab window would still be limited.
I was thinking maybe a 'pager' control on a tab page, so the user
can scroll items on the tab page...and this would increase the number
of items possible on a single page, but then again there's that extra
scrolling that makes the navigation more difficult.

I didnt want to get into a tree view either, where the right pane
is the tab control (number n of m total), but sometimes the total
number of items that need to be housed will just be too high for
a tab control, as well as the number of tabs needed might be too
high.  Tab controls are a rather graphic space expensive control.

I like don's idea too about having tabs on the bottom.
Maybe on the bottom AND on the top?  That would make room for
more tabs without going to a second row.  I guess either way
though the tabs eat up graphic real estate.

 

Take care,
Al

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